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This year’s World Economic Forum has the potential to be one of the most exciting in years. The economic crisis, renewed peace talks between Israel and the Arab World, and the growing importance of the environment will all be flashpoints and make for exciting conversation.
7iber has joined up with the Global Changemakers, an organization support by the British Council, to …

7iber is working with JumpStart to work with a group of young people with blogs, social media, and basic computer literacy. The program is a five-week program based in the Red Cross Hospital in Ashrafiya. Our goal is to bring Iraqis, Palestinians, and Jordanians together to build a community blog in order to share their experiences.
After a rough …

Today, 7iber is hosting its second workshop and this time the topic if about social networking in Jordan. The idea isn’t to lecture anyone but rather to get people talking and grappling with the questions as they come about, especially given the fact that it is still a relatively new phenomenon in Jordan. Feel free to drop a note during …

We thought it would be a neat idea to invite the one and only Mohammad Al-Qaq who is perhaps the most famous Jordanian blogger when it comes to video production. He is known mainly for his blog Khobbeizeh and the way that it has managed to really highlight alternative music and cultural events in Jordan. What’s great about Mohammad is …

After a nice (and healthy) lunch, our third session was launched with Wael Atilli – arguably one of the most creative guys in Jordan and on the Jordanian blogosphere. Wael, who has been involved in the past couple of years with launching things like ikbis.com and watwet, is launching his own company, Kharabesh, that produces original creative content. So he …

Session II: Law and Ethics
Ashraf Al-Raee, Jordanian journalist and chief editor talked about the Jordanian constitution and the Jordanian law concerning media and journalism.
According to the Jordanian law, article 15: “every Jordanian has the right to express themselves as long as he/she does not violate the law”. Participants debated whether non-Jordanians should be granted the same kind of freedom taking …

Our second sessions starts off on the topic of Jordanian media laws. Leading the discussion is Al-Ghad journalist Ashraf Al-Raee whose master’s thesis was on the same subject. Everyone seems really intruiged and a hundred questions are launching various side discussion revolving on the same topic. I think it shows just how important the idea of laws are, and the …

7iber’s first workshop on citizen media “Rough Draft” took off an hour ago, and the discussions are getting more interesting by the minute.
Participants from different backgrounds introduced themselves as managers, students, bloggers, volunteers and others all with a common interest in blogging and citizen media. They came to know more about citizen media and journalism and share their new and …

As we start our first session, we’ve introduced blogging and various blogging concepts, covering things like aggregators, bridge-blogs and platforms; highlighting things like Global Voices, iToot, Jordan Blogs, Technorati and other important sites.
Part two of the session has been mostly discussion-driven, orchestrated by a 7iber team-member, Mariam. We posed a few questions, the most of which we ourselves have no …